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(15044_pr.jpg) Lama Yeshe on the roof acting as foreman and supervising the construction of Kopan, 1972. Kopan Monastery, built in Nepal, is the first major teaching center founded by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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(15144_ng.psd) The construction of Kopan, second floor complete, rear view, 1972. Students and workers gather by the dining tent. Kopan Monastery, built in Nepal, is the first major teaching center founded by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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(15168_sl.psd) The front gate at Kopan showing Steve's Tower on the right. Steve Malasky, an American student, built a Tibetan tower at one end of the Kopan land which came to be known as "Steve's Tower".

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(15173_pr.psd) Zina Rachevsky absorbed in her studies, 1972. Zina was an eccentric Russian-American socialite, the child of a Russian expat father and a German-Jewish mother, who became the Lamas' first Western student in 1966, and who insisted that the Lamas start to teach courses on Buddhism for Westerners. She helped the Lamas found what would later come to be known as Kopan Monastery in Nepal. (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)

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(15148_ng.psd) Ann McNeil (Anila Ann) under a tree on "astrologer's hill", Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1972. Anila Ann was an early student of the Lamas and one of the first western women to ordain as a nun.

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(15158_ng.psd) Mount Everest Center activities at Kopan Monastery, 1972: inviting the portrait of His Holiness the Dalai Lama into the Kopan Gompa for the first time. Losang Nyima is holding the portrait and Lama Zopa Rinpoche is walking in front of him.

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(15175_pr.psd) Zina Rachevsky walking uphill to the Kopan Monastery, 1972. Zina was an eccentric Russian-American socialite, the child of a Russian expat father and a German-Jewish mother, who became the Lamas' first Western student in 1966, and who insisted that the Lamas start to teach courses on Buddhism for Westerners. She helped the Lamas found what would later come to be known as Kopan Monastery in Nepal. (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)

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(15176_pr.psd) Trulshik Rinpoche, whom Zina Rachevsky had met on several occasions, gave permission for her to come to his monastery (Thubten Choling, in the lower Solu region of Solu Khumbu near Junbesi, Nepal) to do intensive retreat in 1972. (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)